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Download full textRojas Serrano, Javier – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2017
In a Colombian private English institution, a qualitative evaluation system has been incorporated. This type of evaluation poses challenges to students who have never been evaluated through a system that eliminates exams or quizzes and, as a consequence, these students have to start making sense of it. This study explores the way students face the…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Qualitative Research, Evaluation Methods, Student Experience
Diaz, Itala – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2015
This study examined the effects of metacognitive strategies to help beginning young learners with difficulties increasing and retaining vocabulary. This was a qualitative study in which participants first went through metacognitive strategy instruction to provide awareness of learning strategies. Following this instruction, students underwent a…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Qualitative Research, Vocabulary Development, Learning Strategies
Caicedo Pereira, Martin Javier; Lozano Bermúdez, Jhonny Alexander; Vanegas Medina, Luis Alfonso – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2018
This action research study examines the effect of self-evaluation on grammatical range and grammar accuracy on the English speaking performance of 27 foreign language university and pre-university students enrolled in three different language centers, in three different cities in Colombia. Participants were asked to record themselves answering…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Accuracy, Benchmarking, Grammar
Méndez López, Mariza G.; Peña Aguilar, Argelia – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2013
The present article reports on a study that explores the effects of the emotional experiences of Mexican language learners on their motivation to learn English. In this qualitative research we present how emotions impact the motivation of university language learners in south Mexico. Results suggest that emotions, both negative and positive,…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Qualitative Research
Banegas, Darío Luis – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2012
In this paper I report the insights of my personal research journal as part of a collaborative action research project I facilitated in a secondary school where I teach English as a foreign language. I kept a journal so as to offer the natural history of my research towards my doctoral degree. In this project I worked together with four…
Descriptors: Professional Identity, Teacher Researchers, Qualitative Research, Journal Writing
Picón Jácome, Édgar – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2012
In this article I present some findings of an action research study intended to find out to what extent a teacher-student partnership in writing assessment could promote high school students' autonomy. The study was conducted in a U.S. school. Two main action strategies in the assessment process were the use of symbols as the form of feedback…
Descriptors: Action Research, Teacher Student Relationship, Writing Evaluation, Student Evaluation
